By the time your doctor diagnoses you, the damage has been accumulating for two decades. Here’s what they should have been testing for the entire time. I want to tell you something that no doctor ever told me before I started reading the research. Pre-diabetes is not the early stage of type 2 diabetes. ItContinue reading “Pre-Diabetes and Type 2”
Tag Archives: Healthy Lifestyle
Cholesterol for Longevity?!
The people who live the longest have cholesterol levels your guidelines would call “high.” Here’s what the largest mortality studies in the world actually show — and why you won’t hear about it in your annual physical. In the last post, I showed you my own lipid panel and walked through why the “high cholesterol”Continue reading “Cholesterol for Longevity?!”
The Truth about Cholesterol
Three flagged numbers on my lipid panel — and the four numbers on the same panel that prove I’m in excellent metabolic health. This is my actual lipid panel, drawn at age 54. Total cholesterol: 240 mg/dL. Flagged. Above the 200 cutoff. LDL cholesterol: 149 mg/dL. Flagged. Above the 100 target. Non-HDL cholesterol: 167 mg/dL.Continue reading “The Truth about Cholesterol”
The Real Cause…
The Real Cause of Heart Disease, Diabetes, and Half of Modern Chronic Illness — And Your Doctor Probably Isn’t Even Testing for It Here is one of the most under-publicized facts in modern medicine. The single biggest cause of heart attacks today is not high cholesterol. It is not saturated fat. It is not evenContinue reading “The Real Cause…”
We are not truly winning the war… heart disease
Open any cardiology textbook from the last decade and you’ll find some version of this: “The age-adjusted death rate from heart disease has dropped by approximately two-thirds since 1970. We are winning.” That sentence is true. It’s also one of the most misleading things in modern medicine. What actually happened Let’s start with the numbers,Continue reading “We are not truly winning the war… heart disease”
Heart Disease Hitting Younger and Younger
You’ve probably been told heart disease is something to worry about later. After 60. After 50, if you’re being safe. Definitely not in your 20s, 30s, or early 40s. That story is outdated, and the data is loud about it. According to the American College of Cardiology, the heart attack rate in adults under 40Continue reading “Heart Disease Hitting Younger and Younger”
The Truth about Veggies
The Vegetable Truth: What to Eat, What to Limit, What Elite Health Demands You Avoid The “eat your vegetables” mantra is one of the most oversimplified messages in modern nutrition. It assumes every plant is created equal, that more is always better, and that kale belongs on a pedestal. The truth is more nuanced —Continue reading “The Truth about Veggies”
The 80/20 Myth:Why “Flexible” Eating Rules Don’t Actually Build Health
The 80/20 Myth: Why “Flexible” Eating Rules Don’t Actually Build Health
Calories, don’t count them but make them count
I have written several blogs over the last few years on Nutrition including Strategic Eating, Why Diets Don’t Work, Eat Fat to Lose Fat, You have to eat to lose… just to name a few. These blogs are available at OneBadAssBITCH.com/blog. My own #fitnessjourney and #healthjourney has been so rewarding and ever evolving for betteringContinue reading “Calories, don’t count them but make them count”
WTF America ?!?!
Only 10% of Adult Americans ARE NOT clinally fat, obese, or teetering the line of increasing the current stat of 75% already there in poor #health and #fitness. 75% already there #fat and #obese 15% teetering meaning over fat, just not clinically a stat yet. Sadly, probably being told they are in good health andContinue reading “WTF America ?!?!”
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